Am Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2004 22:27 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Am Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2004 21:00 schrieb David Brownell:
> > > As a rule, using fewer locks is better.
> >
> > Exactly, and we currently use more locks than I like. 2.4 was clearer.
> > But two locks with clear ownership is better than one lock with shared
> > ownership.
>
> Drivers probably won't change very rapidly. For some time to come I think
> most will end up using a private lock. The one exception is the hub
> driver, but that's really part of the core.
Yes.
[..]
> There isn't much difference between a driver blocking the core from
> calling disconnect() by means of ->serialize and a driver sleeping within
> disconnect(). I'm amenable to either approach, and in fact the core will
> work properly either way -- provided the blocking doesn't last _too_ long.
>
> This decision can simply be left up to the individual drivers.
What about skeleton?
Regards
Oliver
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